This morning, I realized that this weekend's Norwescon is going to be my first real convention since I had my series of nervous breakdowns last fall, along with the subsequent Wellbutrin treatments, personal revelations and choices and the major personality changes that have come with this. I'm curious to see what this will be like, if nothing, it ( Read more... )

Oof. I wore down after like an hour. Possibly because I rushed down here just in time for my workshop where The Blood Rose was ripped apart. I think my favorite advice was from Leah Cutter, who said I should keep the omniscient parts of the narrative serious, and keep the snark for the characters. I suspect that's another ding against my failed ( Read more... )

This morning I went to take a shower. The faucets are those bubbly-cross types which add to the "I'm staying in an old hotel" ambience. I turn the hot-water faucet, and nothing happens. I turn the cold-water faucet, and nothing happens. Around and around they turn, and nothing happens. "Well, I won't take a shower," I think. How could a fancy plce ( Read more... )

Today was the day we rounded up the members of our workshop and did a take 2. I'm grateful everyone was willing to do this, and I never cease to be amazed at how helpful pros can be. They're not required to help anyone, but they do. I got a lot of great feedback from jaylake and L. Timmel Duchamp and all the others in our group. Their advice combined gave ( Read more... )

I'm at Potlatch, staying in the classiest hotel I've ever stayed in. Come six o'clock, we walk into registration, and Jay Lake turns to me and says, "speak of the Devil!" I'm like, "someone's talking about me? Jay Lake is talking about me? Why the hell would anyone talk about me?" It's because our workshop session was two hours earlier, while we ( Read more... )

Ok, Foolscap report.
I went with kehrli, whose first Foolscap this was. (It's my third). We stayed with the gracious awritersweekend and bsdotrand and their enormous dog, their enormous cat, their slightly less enormous cat, and their sad goldfish which seems to have too much air in it.
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I'll be in Seattle at Foolscap this weekend, with kehrli, awritersweekend and bsdotrand.

Anyone else?

Writers Weekend Report, Part 2
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